Doesn't uTorrent have a 'Create Torrent' menu item? This will (probably) give you a .torrent file you can give to peeps.

I say probably, as I did it in Azureus once, never had a need in uTorrent.

Scott
September 18th, 2006 12:14pm

Okay, so if I leave my client on, seeding happens automatically.

But the torrents I have at home are in a different client. On my laptop. That I shut down. So nothing is being seeded from the group that is asking me to seed. So I shouldn't download to a machine that I'm going to shut down....Hmm.

If you've already downloaded the torrent, it's just a matter of leaving it running without deleting the torrent from the list & making sure your settings don't say "stop seeding after you reach 100% or 2 hours."

If you've deleted it, it's a matter of re-downloading the torrent & pointing it at the files.

If you've deleted the file, you're SOL.

If your settings told the torrent to stop seeding, it's a matter of changing the settings & restarting the torrent.

If someone has asked you to seed a torrent, odds are they've asked everyone who has that torrent to seed, so you don't really need to seed it. But if it's a large enough file, you may want to anyway to improve your seed ratio.

Creating a new torrent for the file *will not* help you if you're being asked to seed a torrent you've downloaded, that's only if you want to upload a new file.

x
September 18th, 2006 12:50pm

Well, I just noticed that I've been seeding some of this on another machine I have already. But nobody wants those files, so no activity.

This isn't quite fair. I'm being told I have to seed. I seeded some of what I downloaded. WTF. The ones I downloaded from home I just did a day or two ago, and I don't have access to them.

Or you could just find some material that they want and create a torrent of that.

x
September 18th, 2006 4:59pm

The best way to ensure a good ratio on one of those sites is to hop on the popular stuff the very second it gets posted. Then you're uploading to the other people who are downloading more than you're downloading yourself.

So you get one part, but you share it with five other people, and so on. It's tough to get a good ratio at the beginning, but very easy after some time.